Bust my back on the Levy - broke my strings on the BBCFound my chops on Eel Pie Island - paid my dues at the MarqueeSlagged off by the N.M.E. - lost my stash and my virginityIn this Cockamamie Business

Got my face on Ed Sullivan - broke my heart on the Soul TrainIntroduced to Bad Company - lost cells down at Brain DrainAnd before I could mend - lost the missus, missed the girlfriendIn this Cockamamie Business

According to legend, Beatlemania taking off in the U.S. can be largely attributed to a 15-year-old Marylander named Marsha Albert. After seeing a news segment about the band, Albert called a local radio station in Washington, D.C., and asked, "Why can't we have music like that here in America?"

That station, WWDC, was later responsible for inflicting both Howard Stern and Doug "The Greaseman" Tracht upon American.

Jiro Dreams Of McRibs:Little known fact: An enormous number of Lennon/McCartney original compositions were lost forever when Linda cleaned Paul McCartney's apartment for him while he was away.

It turns out all those old wrinkled scraps of paper with scribbling on them were original songs the two had written but never recorded. Somewhere in a UK landfill...

Nope. That was John, but not Yoko. One of his Lost Weekend girlfriends, but I don't think it was May Pang. In a US landfill.

Keep in mind that Linda was an art history major and a photographer. Creative types don't throw out scraps of paper because they always intend to come back to them for inspiration or to see to them completion. Linda would have understood that.

Paul never had an apartment. He lived with Jane Asher's family in an attic on Wimpole Street (yes, that Wimpole Street) until he bought his St John Wood home in 1965.

KwameKilstrawberry:Jiro Dreams Of McRibs: Little known fact: An enormous number of Lennon/McCartney original compositions were lost forever when Linda cleaned Paul McCartney's apartment for him while he was away.

It turns out all those old wrinkled scraps of paper with scribbling on them were original songs the two had written but never recorded. Somewhere in a UK landfill...

Nope. That was John, but not Yoko. One of his Lost Weekend girlfriends, but I don't think it was May Pang. In a US landfill.

Keep in mind that Linda was an art history major and a photographer. Creative types don't throw out scraps of paper because they always intend to come back to them for inspiration or to see to them completion. Linda would have understood that.

Paul never had an apartment. He lived with Jane Asher's family in an attic on Wimpole Street (yes, that Wimpole Street) until he bought his St John Wood home in 1965.

It was Jane Asher I was thinking about. She supposedly threw out a notebook full of songs.

Wellon Dowd:According to legend, Beatlemania taking off in the U.S. can be largely attributed to a 15-year-old Marylander named Marsha Albert. After seeing a news segment about the band, Albert called a local radio station in Washington, D.C., and asked, "Why can't we have music like that here in America?"

That station, WWDC, was later responsible for inflicting both Howard Stern and Doug "The Greaseman" Tracht upon American.